Quick-varnish composition.



Patented June 23, 19 03.

PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAV TUSOHEL, OF ODESSA, RUSSIA.

-QUlCK-VARNISH COMPOSITION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,723, dated June 23, 1903.

i I Application filed November 25, 1902. S i l N 132,783. (No specimenah To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LGUsTAv TiiscHEL, manufacturer, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at Odessa, Russia, have invented a new and useful Improvement inQuick-Varnish Compositions; andI do hereby declare the l following to be a full, clear, and exact depulverized,three grams of transparent French colophony pounded, eight grams of benzoingum of Sumatra, five gramsof benzoin-guin of Siam, both of the latter ground, eight grams of eamphors in corns pounded. These products are put into an iron kettle and are heated and mixed. When this is done, the composition rests in order to cool. Then an addition is made of "twelve grams sulfuric ether and fifteen grams ground carnelian.

Then this mass is thoroughly pressed and dried during three days. After these three days the mass is put into a barrel, wherein there is added one thousand grams of debased alcohol of 95 to 96, whereupon the barrel is Well closed and turned during six hours.

Then the barrel is rested three days, after which time the obtained liquid is filtered and racked off into bottles. When painting with this composition, white raw wood becomes like real mahogany, audit has the advantage that the furniture that was polished with it can be washed with water without losing its brilliancy and that it does not swell in damp rooms.

Second. Black ebony varnish. The proceedings are as follows: The operation is the same as under N0. 1; but when the addition of sulfuric ether is made there is added. twenty grams black anilin instead of fifteen grams ground carnelian. It is used for paintmg raw whitewood furniture, to which it gives the appearance of real ebony.

Third. Natural brown quick-varnish is produced as follows: its fabrication being the same as in No. 1, but without any addition of an ingredient when mixing the composition with sulfuric ether. Itis used for painting raw white-wood furniture and giving it the look of natural-wood furniture.

Fourth. Varnish for pianos, billiards, and other fine furnitui'e produced as follows, the operation being all the same as in No. 1, although there is heated and mixed one hundred and twenty grams ground stick-lac, one hundred gram-s ground sandal lac, twelve grams French colophony, eight grams pounded camphor, forty-five grams French white resin, (galipot,) ten grams benzoin-gurn of Siam,thirty grams ground gum-mastic,twenty grams carnelian. Further, instead of one thousand grams alcohol there is added only six hundred. .Then the barrel is turned during an hour, whereupon the liquid is resting six days instead of three days.

' Fifth. Varnish for pianos, billiards, and other fine furniture of palisander consisting of one hundred and twenty grams sandarac, one hundred grams ground stick-lac, thirty grams ground gum-mastic, forty-five grams Venetian turpentine, twenty grams pounded white bleached shellac, twenty grams carnelian, six grams black anilin. Further, there is added twelve grams of ether and afterward six hundred grams of debased alcohol.

I claim 1. A varnish composition containing pulverized stick-lac, pulverized white bleached shellac, French colophony, ground benzoingum of Sumatra, ground benzoin-gum of grams of ground benzoin-guln of Sumatra, five grams ground benzoin-gum of Siam, eight grains of camphor in kernels, twelve grams of sulfuric ether, fifteen grams of ground carnelian, and one thousand grams of debased alcohol, 90 to 96, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAV TUsoHEL.

Witnesses-z H. D. JAMESON, JACOB KAHN. 

